ElementNotInteractable Exception: Message: Element <a href=> could not be scrolled into view - python-3.x

Question

I am trying to click and download "Real Sector" on the following link:
http://www.sbp.org.pk/reports/quarterly/fy19/Second/qtr-index-eng.htm
Here is what I have tried:
driver.get('http://www.sbp.org.pk/reports/quarterly/fy19/Second/qtr-index-eng.htm')
try:
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("a[href= 'Chap-2.pdf']").click()
except NoSuchElementException:
pass
But it gives following error:
ElementNotInteractableException: Message: Element could not be scrolled into view
How can I resolve this?

Answer 1

You need to apply Explicit Wait and wait till the element is present on the page and then you can click on it.
You can also scroll to the element first and then click on it.
You can do it like:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
driver.get('http://www.sbp.org.pk/reports/quarterly/fy19/Second/qtr-index-eng.htm')
try:
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//a[#href='Chap-2.pdf']")))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].scrollIntoView();", element)
element.click()
except NoSuchElementException:
pass
OR
You can directly click on the element using java script click like:
driver.get('http://www.sbp.org.pk/reports/quarterly/fy19/Second/qtr-index-eng.htm')
try:
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//a[#href='Chap-2.pdf']")))
driver.execute_script("arguments[0].click();", element)
except NoSuchElementException:
pass

Answer 2

Try to wait use element_to_be_clickable
element = WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a[href= 'Chap-2.pdf']")))
element.click()

Answer 3

To click on "Real Sector" link Induce WebDriverWait() and element_to_be_clickable() and following xpath option.
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('http://www.sbp.org.pk/reports/quarterly/fy19/Second/qtr-index-eng.htm')
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[contains(.,'Real Sector')]"))).click()
You need to import following libraries.
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
Browser snapshot after clicking.